Stokegorse North Ludlow Shropshire SY8 2EW Data via plota.co.uk

26/00071/OHL - Overhead Electricity Lines Decided

Proposal

Replace existing 15 KVA pole mounted transformer with 50KVA pole mounted transformer on existing pole Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Sept 2026, 17:22

Application progress

✓

Received

8 Jan 2026

Decision

Expected by 5 Mar 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 9 Oct 2026; it is now day 274.

Documents 2

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF SIGNED CERTIFICATE Decision · 13 Jan 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 5

Shropshire Hills National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

Agricultural land, grade 3a

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Public footpath about 24 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.

Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Shropshire
Application type: Overhead Electricity Lines
Postcode: SY8 2EW
Received: 8 Jan 2026
Validated: 8 Jan 2026
Ward: Corvedale
Parish: Stoke St Milborough
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 5 Mar 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision

Decision outlook

Day 274, past the statutory target. 96% of utility and infrastructure works in Shropshire are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 27 Sept 2026.

target

predicted

Day 274218 days past the 56-day target

76%decided within 8 weeks

81%approved

70decided in the last year

Plota live figures for utility and infrastructure works decided by Shropshire in the last twelve months, from validation. Shropshire decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 27 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 5 Mar 2026
Env. assessment: No

Shropshire

Planning Authority Score

7.3/10

Good

#53 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Shropshire is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #53 out of 296. Only 29% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Shropshire decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

87%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #179 of 296

93%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #136 of 296

78%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #53 of 296

29%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #50 of 296

68%

Minor dwellings approved

350 decided (1-9 homes)

63%

Major dwellings approved

35 decided (10+ homes)

78%

Change of use approved

27 decided

2,083

Total decisions

273 refused in the year to March 2026